A fab store in Dublin that caters for your eye care and eye wear. Gorgeous glasses and sunglasses from some of the hottest eyewear designers out there, specialist sports glasses to pep up your golf game, or just make you look cooler at the bar. Urban Eye Care take care of everything from testing to contact lenses, fab advice and great taste. A cool “gorgeous find”! Visit the website for more information, click here.
Clare Nicolson textiles combine digitally printed cottons and silks with vintage fabric to create a fresh range of interior textiles and accessories. The range includes cushions, throws, tea towels, scarves and handmade greetings cards, many of which incorporate vintage fabric ensuring truly unique designs.
Designs for clare nicolson textiles are taken from paper collages which she creates using decorative papers and packaging. Inspiration for collages can come from almost anything; an old teapot, a walk in the country, even the birds in her garden. Pattern is an integral part of the textiles. Layering pattern on pattern, designs develop as each new paper is uncovered. Check her out at http://www.clarenicolson.com. A creative “gorgeous find”!
A classy food hall, an art gallery and wine merchants, Green Acres in Wexford has it all. This conceptual venue is a fab combination of art, quality wine and food. A great place to do your shopping and browse on a Saturday or even hire it out for a fun do. A top class “gorgeous find”! Click here for more details.
Furniture, objects and design make up this fab store in Selskar Wexford. We fell in love with pretty much everything in this lifestyle boutique, it’s vintage & contempory furniture, lighting and objects of desire. Owners Emily and Declan have a cool eye when choosing classics and pieces from current designers to compliment each other, visit their shop when on that weekend trip to Wexford or check them out online. A classy “gorgeous find”!
Although they are a new company, they have been baking biscuits in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, for over 70 years.
In 1935, the Spencer family started making biscuits at the back of their tea shop. The bakery name was ‘Green Dragon’, and it dates back to 1605 when the building was a coaching inn.
The original Ashbourne gingerbread recipe came into the family’s hands in the early 1800s from the French chef who invented it, and has been passed down from generation to generation ever since.
In 2006, the Spencer family sold the bakery to The Fine Cheese Co. and Paul Darvil, who share the same commitment to, and belief in, making biscuits with skill, care and the finest ingredients.
Find them in deli’s around the country.
Lynn Brunells is an Emmy Award-winning writer and illustrator and her Yoga for Chickens book is a fine start to the New Year for stressed out hen pecked chicks. Sections on breathing and stretching enlighten any load, and a series of fix-it routines unscramble such problem areas as neck, thighs, and aching feet.
A smiling “gorgeous find”!
Buy online at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Chickens-Lynn-Brunelle/dp/0811843114
or Ireland’s online Eco-Shop http://www.ecoshop.ie/proddetail.asp?prod=9780811843119
Unique and beautiful. A real mix between country cottage and chic. Rosemary runs her studio shop in the Castlecomer Estate Yard, Castlecomer, Co. Kilkenny. Her work is established and interesting with unique design and functionality. A “Gorgeous Find”! Click here to visit the website to view her pieces.
Benoit Lorge, award winning chef, creates high quality chocolates for gourmet shops and high class hotels and restaurants. Working closely with the local community, Benoit now also runs a number of specialist courses for aspiring chocolate makers, teaching them the finer points of preparing, handling and finishing many different types of chocolate. His most popular event is the bi-monthly children’s workshop, although sometimes his greatest critics, all the children go home delighted by what they have experienced with plenty of stories to tell. A fab “gorgeous find”! Click here for more information
A great website with lots of info and stuff to buy when thinking about your garden. Tips, helpful hints and advice from a professional gardener all stuffed into a easy to use and fab online seed shop.
http://www.sarahraven.com/
Take bicycles that are half human, humans that are half bicycle, a murder and a most unusual village police force, and you have the makings of the brilliantly bizarre. O’Brien’s classic is all at once a thriller, comic satire and surrealist vision of eternity. Not to mention the tale of an unrequited love affair between a man and his bicycle. Catch it at the Everyman Palace Theatre from Mon 19 - Thur 22 May @ 8pm. Click here to get tickets or more information. If you can’t make the play get the book and have a surreal summer read! A true “gorgeous find”!